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A far-right North Carolina congressman drew sharp criticism Tuesday following his comparison of former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case in New York to what Black people experienced in 1950s Alabama. Republican Rep. Dan Bishop, who represents the state’s 9th congressional district near Charlotte, told The Pete Kaliner Show in Charlotte that Trump’s criminal case “fundamentally rigged” because the case was brought in the Democratic leaning state. “I do believe that the people who are engaging in selective prosecution, vindictive prosecution, using it, doing it, and when I say it…